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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 398075" data-attributes="member: 8">And wouldn&#039;t it be ironic if, at least initially, they gave the audience more&nbsp;&nbsp; value for their money? Because, as a relatively new industry, they had yet to calculate the value and future importance of said industry?Kinda how it happened to Dynasty season 1, come to think of it.But it could also be a matter of different standards, a sort of old-school pseudo-intellectual snobbery (as Steven Cord described his wicked mother&#039;s upper-class generation in Peyton Place).Look at the American mansions they&#039;ve built at that time.Yes, maybe that&#039;s it. Maybe you can judge a movie man by his choice of mansion.Very expensive mansions are still being built but it&#039;s obvious to me that these people usually have no taste whatsoever, and it spills over into their product or service.They keep spending millions and millions and millions on the most rotten films and I guess the audience keeps thinking &quot;maybe this time they&#039;ll get it right&quot;.Furthermore, people have always loved the cinema experience and they don&#039;t want to give it up, even if that means lowering the expectations.I could imagine that you would see a movie with your friends and think, bah this sucks, but you don&#039;t want to be that bitch and complain about it and ruin the evening so you&#039;re like &quot;yeah yeah twas great yeah yeah&quot; (besides, if you want to complain you can always go online and post a vengeful review on IMDB).But the thread is about a lot of different things going on at the same time, further complicated by the nonsensical complexity of the...*pauses dramatically*....human condition (as they like to say it these days).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 398075, member: 8"] And wouldn't it be ironic if, at least initially, they gave the audience [I]more[/I] value for their money? Because, as a relatively new industry, they had yet to calculate the value and future importance of said industry? Kinda how it happened to Dynasty season 1, come to think of it. But it could also be a matter of different standards, a sort of old-school pseudo-intellectual snobbery (as Steven Cord described his wicked mother's upper-class generation in Peyton Place). Look at the American mansions they've built at that time. Yes, maybe that's it. Maybe you can judge a movie man by his choice of mansion. Very expensive mansions are still being built but it's obvious to me that these people usually have no taste whatsoever, and it spills over into their product or service. They keep spending millions and millions and millions on the most rotten films and I guess the audience keeps thinking "maybe [I]this [/I] time they'll get it right". Furthermore, people have always loved the cinema experience and they don't want to give it up, even if that means lowering the expectations. I could imagine that you would see a movie with your friends and think, bah this sucks, but you don't want to be that bitch and complain about it and ruin the evening so you're like "yeah yeah twas great yeah yeah" (besides, if you want to complain you can always go online and post a vengeful review on IMDB). But the thread is about a lot of different things going on at the same time, further complicated by the nonsensical complexity of the...*pauses dramatically*....[I]human condition[/I] (as they like to say it these days). [/QUOTE]

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